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Head of Frontend

PIKTOCHART

Besides having technical expertise and knowledge in the frontend domain, you are someone who is keen in leading and developing a team, as well as ensuring their execution and quality towards achieving the goals collectively. You have the confidence and experience to make key decisions when it comes to technical direction or choices, and not afraid to take calculated risks. Following that, you are then able to plan, communicate, align, lead, and coach the frontend team towards the direction.

What you’ll do

Team and Culture

Mentor and grow the team members to be both technically strong and culturally aligned

Recruit talents who are excited and motivated about our mission and share our HOPEFUL values

Frequent 1:1s and feedback to ensure the well-being of the team as well as their deliverables

Evaluate the performance of the team

Front End Technology Stack

Keep up with industry trends that can be leveraged for business impact

Improve code quality and robustness

Institute best practices and proper coding standards across the team through processes like code review, pair programming etc.

Ensure proper documentation of the frontend codebase to ease onboarding and knowledge transfer between developers

Who you are

5+ years front end development experience with Javascript/HTML/SCSS

Proven history of mentoring and developing others

Able to work in a distributed team environment

You think critically about your work and ask questions in order to improve the product, not only in its technical implementation but also in how well it’s serving the needs of our users

You have built products and UI using modern web technologies and can point to your prior work

You have the ability to understand the business impact of team’s decision and then rally the team to execute on them

You have strong communication skills and are able to explain complex technical topics to the entire team in a clear and concise way

You understand that behind any technical decision there is a business need to be fulfilled

You love front-end technologies but also eager and able to dig into other areas of the product as needed

You care about your team and their growth. You are focused on developing and growing the people to excel in their role.